Calming down

Usage examples of stilling.

Supposedly, the only way to survive stilling for long was to find something else to fill your life, to fill the hole left by the One Power.

All it would take would be a few wrong words from Moghedien, a complaint that would never come from the farm woman she appeared to be, to start her on a path to stilling and the headsman, and Nynaeve and Elayne on one not much better.

The Yellows should have been the most welcoming to her desire to Heal anything and everything, even stilling, but they were the least.

The pain of his death, the pain first masked by the shock of what Elaida intended and then buried by stilling, that pain filled her to the brim.

Healing of Siuan and Leane could make anyone speak of stilling with ease.

But Doris could stand that only for a moment before her hand clutched his wrist, stilling it.

The elation of knowing for sure that she was loved was like a wand waving away all tremors, stilling them to sweetness.

Whole bright days of spring and early summer they spent out in Roke Bay in light catboats, practising steering by word, and stilling waves, and speaking to the world’s wind, and raising up the magewind.

That build, clothed in a very dark suit and a very white shirt with a club tie of almost stilling restraint, demanded to be completed by a bowler hat.

And in so doing, in earning his gratitude, in stilling the sniggers of the assembled gongs‑and‑pips, I created a new father for myself.

He remembered that she had a love of old books, and if he had been at Stillings he might have found her something of special interest, but here in Linton there was little hope of securing an interesting volume.

Generally he spent a great deal of his time at Stillings or traveling, but he enjoyed London when he was there.